Sony’s portable PlayStation Portal is back in stock

Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Update February 16th, 6:35PM ET: Sony appears to have sold out of the PlayStation Portal, as the handheld remote player is no longer available via PlayStation Direct. Sony’s PlayStation Portal is a bit of an odd, single-purpose device but it’s been flying off shelves since it came out in mid-November — and right now it’s back in stock. The dedicated Remote Play device for the PlayStation 5 is available once again for its usual asking price of $199.99 from Sony’s PlayStation Direct storefront. The Portal’s sole focus is to stream games off of your PlayStation 5 via Wi-Fi and into your hands on its eight-inch touchscreen LCD. It’s not that different from using Remote Play on an iPad or a phone with a Backbone One controller, but the... Continue reading…